George R.
Yelp
Since we had 2 hrs to waste at the airport I decided to finally try the famous Beaudevin. When they opened at noon we were the first to be seated.
Cocktails: Bloody Mary with olives and a celery stalk ($16?) I asked the waitress and she confirmed the drink was spicy so I ordered one, my companion ordered a French 75 and we asked for water. We also ordered a cheese and charcuterie platter served with "warm baguette" ($24) and a Greek salad.
A long, long time later (well we weren't in a hurry) the drinks arrived but no water. The celery was MIA from my drink; when I asked the waitress she replied that they "hadn't received celery in months." OK, but what about letting me know this when I ordered? We couldn't taste the gin in the French 75 either, two fails.
Sometime later, we received the greek salad and the charcuterie platter -no water still, service was glacially slow due to the numerous employees busy chatting while ignoring customers.
The salad looked pretty dry so we asked our server if the dressing was already on it, and she said it was. The olives were missing, the tomato slices weren't ripe and the feta cheese was that nasty kind that you get at the supermarket, cubes wrapped in plastic. And there definitely was no dressing on the salad. I didn't believe it was possible to screw up a simple salad as badly as that.
The charcuterie platter looked like a bad joke. I was about to start eating it, but I put the knife down BEFORE I ate any of it to take a picture. This is what it looked like: two pieces of ham, three slices of salami, a couple of tiny pieces of cheese, some walnuts, and a bit of honey. And the "warm baguette" was day-old, dried-out bread, toasted!
Since there was so little food on the plate, I ended up eating the toast and asked for more bread to spread the honey on. This time I was brought fresh, lightly toasted, bread, but I was charged an additional $3 for that.
I paid before asking for the manager because I wanted to make clear that I wasn't looking for a freebie. When the manager arrived I told her that it wasn't a surprise that the reviews they had received recently were terrible. So, $85 for two drinks and two dishes and everything was a fail!